ah, ah, resetting the dial a decade with how it relations comes to act close as saudi arabia, as foreign minister meets with the syrian president, bashar al assad in damascus. joining other nations in the middle east, we forging times after years with russia, foreign minister holds a series of high level talks. what tell, dip them out on this tour of latin america is multiple. strengthens and not. so mexico pushes back against the cia long history of medley in the country with several former presidents being referred to as i've said, some of the u. s. intelligence. with

these all ahead, this our life from our introduction. you center moscow. this is our team to not to hello and welcome that saudi foreign minister has met with syrian president assad in damascus. the 1st top level meeting between the 2 countries. in 12 years, a solution to the conflict and syria was top of the agenda. a resumption of diplomatic ties was discussed as well, potentially ending syria decade long regional isolation. r. t correspondent maria financial delves into how the middle eastern world is blazing forward with new and renewed alliances. leaving a note of a world power looking on from the side lights tectonic movements in the turbulent, middle east, where more and more countries and forces decide to take the path of friendship with

. in the most recent move, saudi arabia's foreign minister visits syria for the 1st time since 2011 when the conflict, they are started in which riyadh and other gulf states supported the theory and opposition. the 2 sides discussed the necessary steps to a cheaper comprehensive political supplement of the syrian crisis. that would, and all its repre cautions, achieve national reconciliation and contribute to the return of syria to its arab surroundings and the resumption of its natural role in their world. saudi arabia is now expected to invite the syrian president to re odd, as well as to the arab league summit. next month, damascus was suspended from the organization following the war. not all support the idea, but some show firm solidarity. liked the united arab emirates that recently displayed the syrian national flag on the bush, holly fine to buy in honor of the 77th anniversary of syrian statehood.

ah, in another hasn't happened in a long time stab. saudi arabia has just now received the political leadership of hamas, the milton group ruling garza, the 1st such visit in more than 15 years. and before that also managed to reconcile with its original rival iran. after $710.00 seer is the 2 countries are reopening. the ambassador soon with a litter is exchanging mutual invitations. the breakthrough deal was brokered by china and praised by many the palestinian islamic resistance movement. hamas welcomes the resumption of relations between iran and saudi arabia. this is a significant step to unite the arab and muslim world, boost security and understanding between the arab and muslim nations and the chief stability in the region and miss waive or original normalization. it sounds like

someone very important as missing washington with b gene, performing all the hard work hate was left on the sidelines. not willing to lose another chance of playing a role. it now promises to push the saudis to make friends with israel. a toll saudi arabia, i'd like to upgrade our relationship. we have to do it in a way that would be reassuring to our friends in israel. preston barn is very interested in normalizing relationships. who, sorry, arabia in turn, saudi arabia recognizing the one in o, my jewish, they take a lot of effort but it's worth trying. israel, it seems once this badly, we want normalization. peace from saudi arabia. we do that is perhaps the, the giant leap forward towards ending the arab israeli called this agreement could have monumental consequences. historic consequences both for israel,

for saudi arabia, for the region for the world. but so far, reality is holding back saying that won't happen until palestinian statehood goals are met. with the recent escalation in israeli palestinian conflict and the news railey government choosing a hard line regarding palestinian affairs. that's unlikely to be anytime soon. the international community has been alarmed. the us has been promising pressure when it's middle east ally israel, but things only get worse. now, china, that did what the us failed to do in bringing saudi arabia and iran together. stat saying it's too early to say where the china or anybody else will succeed in help in israel and palestine. find a path to a solution. rafe notion, i r t from jerusalem was we heard maria just go through their china has offered israel and palestine a puff to return to the negotiating table to settle their decades long dispute. the

chinese foreign minister held separate coals with his middle eastern counterparts and said beijing is willing to take a role in bridging the divide. china encourages both israel and palestine to show political courage and take steps to resume peace talks and is ready to provide convenience for the move. be jing always supports the strategic autonomy of middle eastern countries and supports them in holding their future in their own hands. china has no selfish interests on these railey palestine issue and only hopes that israel and palestine can coexist peacefully and safeguard regional peace and stability. chain gang statement comes them rising tensions following a slew of recent clashes between his really armed forces on palestinians earlier this month. these really defense forces rated the alex, a mosque in jerusalem during ramadan for evicting and arresting those inside. one of his lamps. fully assess, protesters had barricaded themselves in the building of a time. the mosque was close to visitors,

throwing rocks and fireworks at soldiers who tried to remove the show of force. from the idea of rome, widespread condemnation from the r of world subsequent rocket attacks from garza 11 east territory were seen. bly spoke to russ feingold ross is a political risk analyst focusing on asia. he sees china will be welcomed by palestinians as a mediator of these really administration is unlikely to support the move in recent decades. israel and china enjoyed very strong relations, especially in trade and more recent years technology trade. and that, that's actually got some criticism from the united states, and israel is been under pressure not just on technology, but also infrastructure investment as well. so looking at it from a distance, here we go back just a few years. it was actually that i had switch where many decades ago china had a good relationship with the arab world,

which was at war with israel. and that's now make a switch. the recent years were china had a very good relationship with israel. from the palestinian perspective, they're going to welcome any middle person, especially a country with as much influence a china that says we might want to play a role. but then again, at the risk of going in circles back by israel to say, well, what exactly is chinese motivation here? just putting up to one side, broad knowing that the close ties between israel and the us. how would you think washington will react to the piece propositions of beijing? would washington support if they saw that asian was making progress, making inroads in some sort of peace settlement? do you think they would get on board? or just as a matter of principle, step away or be negative. good motivation for abided administration should be negative on this is probably going to say to china, well if, if,

if you have time and resources for the middle east, we deal with iran and the nuclear program 1st. and we'll take care of israel and palestine. i think that would probably be the realistic approach from the by did administration. i wonder to be frank, it's just, well, no, they were a bit surprised or caught on aware that china was mediating between saudi arabia and i. and i don't think they have high expectations again that, that china could really mediate between israel and the palestinians. china has prohibited its companies from doing business with 2 u. s. weapons manufacturers, major ones accusing them of directly supplying taipei. the 2 firms have long been involved in arms sales to the island to taiwan, which is of a malicious nature. so we decided to prohibit the 2 u. s. companies from engaging in import and export activities related to china with

the aim of preventing chinese products for being used in that military industry. some background on there since september, the raytheon corporation was awarded a $412000000.00 contract to upgrade ty, ones military radar. while lockheed martin supplied the island surgery with helicopters, sir, traffic control and radar equipment. in february china, out of the u. s. companies to it's. busy unreliable entities list and impose sanctions, and as we heard has no bond any business being done with them. we spoke with michael maloof, a former pentagon senior security policy analyst, who sees that decision as beijing's attempt to send a political message. this is a turning to be a that the use of sanctions, economic sanctions, now as set by the united states is becoming a new world standard, i guess. and the chinese felt that these, these 2 defense contractors warranted that because of their technical assistance to

the taiwanese, these 2 companies probably have some interest in china already in some, in some form of manufacturing. so that's something that's good that they're going to have to look at. and i presume the chinese are weighed that before they launched their own sanctions. and sometimes as the united states, there will go ahead and sanction a company, even though there is no viable business. and if anything, it's to send a message, a political message, and united states, as i said, has done that many times before, even with chinese companies that don't have investments in the united states. it's the u. s. which has engaged in secret surveillance and what is happening now is political manipulation at china's response to u. s. accusations that beijing,

as established an overseas secret police station, based in new york. they may follow the china firmly opposes the u. s. side. slander . political manipulation, malicious fabrication of the so called cross border repression, narrative and blatant prosecution of chinese law enforcement and cyber security. officials, u. s. has long suppressed dissidents through secret surveillance, illegal monitoring, global hunting, and behind the scenes, transactions will make the label of trans national suppression. is perfectly appropriate for the united states itself was hopeful. but according to the accusations being leveled by us authorities, 2 chinese men were helping to establish se clandestine police station in york city on behalf of beijing aimed a tracking down on harassing chinese dissidence. while adamantly denying the allegations, china stated that the station was so li, used as a place spread citizens to receive legal services. well,

let's cross now to the chinese capital and get more in this from c g t. n correspondent, you and faith shall you're most welcome to the program. i come, bob, response there from beijing and faith. tell us more about the situation. well, the current situation is that it's another round of narrative created by the u. s. and he, china narrative that china says it's a narrative of trends, national rec, repression. and it's a blatant prosecution of the chinese law enforcement at cyber ministration officials. so if you look at the 2 men who are charged the united states, they war of the us citizens and they were charged with conspiring to act as agents of china. the china says that there is no such a so called to police stations in the us. so what did this

stations because i believe that were buildings there. what did the stations actually do that were set off by china? well, it's basically an outcome of depends. i'm it for most of the time because when a chinese citizens overseas, due to the trouble restrictions, a lot of them can ought to trouble back home. so they have to get their let either driver license renewed or they have to deal with their citizenship as well. as many other documents need to be renewed. so if there was several police stations initiative, this kind of project also for this case in our real the report says that it's under the food jo, branch of ministry of public security. and this, this is some kind of a service that provides the renewal of our driver's license, and it certainly has nothing to do with the so called the police station.

and the chinese media has also a public publicly a report about the service. so if it's, if it's, if it's really something secretly done there, there wouldn't be no mass media report on, on that. and there are certainly so many people have saying that there are benefited due to this kind of service relations between the u. s. and china has been straightened for, for quite a while. ah, it will this incident, will it significantly dent ties further? i would say that it does. but at the same time, it's just another wave of the ongoing narrative they're created by the us side. you know, last week and maybe tie one week before and maybe she job. so it's just as a series of anti china narrative and chinese or ministry has said that you as,

as long surprise to just send it through the secret sybil and illegal was typing from the us side and mix the chinese side. we bites on the side of a incident that broke out last year that the u. s. has been creating weapons to steal a cyber security systems in china for, for, for a long time. so this is certainly something that the u. s. has done for a period of time and doing well. so this is exactly what, what the the for a ministry set and they say call to the 20 national rep. repression is an allegation that best matches the u. s. own practices. yeah. these and the center is being said there and essentially help centers for chinese citizens.

abroad. you laid out during the pandemic. they were particularly in use also for driving license a accessory cetera. there's a 1000000 and one things about chinese nations could, could need help with across the world. will it affect their work? do you think in other countries this reaction, this kind of line up, they must be involved in espionage or a secret kind of app police station. what, what is being expecting to happen in other countries? well, it's quite really comments for, you know, the chinese community to, you know, get together and build up such kind of community that people help each other, especially out of china it's, it's just a culture background of people would like to help each other a. but if you look at the news that countries that raise the concerns over these kind of gatherings are mostly u. s. allies like canada,

japan and south korea. so, you know, china has been loan being parties seeing the principle of no interference in other countries. internal affairs, and this is whitening and recognized by the international community. so china also wants to take this opportunity to once again stating back to that a strictly follow the international loss. always good to see you. talk to young fish and beijing. c. g t, and correspondent. thank you. thanks. ah, now continuing his tour of latin america. russia's foreign minister has held talks with his bolivian counterpart where they discussed bilateral relations, an art line, future plans. let's go through all this. the top diplomats met in the venezuelan capital caracas while emphasizing the long history of relations between the 2 country circle of raw from mind in his office at number by the standing invitation for the country's president louis r k. to visit russia when the russian foreign minister also met with venezuela.

hesitant nicholas maduro in caracas, saying both country serve an understanding and how to develop bi lateral projects and coordinate in the international arena. the spikes external pressure, r t, spanish correspondence, semi on sender office, following mr. le for offs tour their russian foreign minister, sergey lab rove, had had a meeting with the ben as well. and president nicholas madura at the 1st image that was so we could sir, judge that he was quite a friendly meeting momentum before our sergey lovegrove had also a meeting. so with the vice president delta rodriguez and also with their foreign minister off will win as well as even he'll i s a you can imagine they, i talked about and their relationships between and their 2 countries. so she was switched from naga nowadays. the collective west is trying hard to weaken

independence across many regions in the world. that's why it's so important to unite efforts to counteract the attempts of dick that blackmail and illegal unilateral pressure over the past few years. it's become clear to every one that dependence on the u. s. dollar dependence on those principles of globalization that the americans themselves have been introducing for many years. does not lead to any good police principles, including the free market fair competition, the viability of property. the presumption of innocence, all these principles shared by the americans and their allies, can be broken in a day if they need to punish someone for disobedience if they need to get their competitors out of the way they spoke about our their trip there, sir, gala rav sir trip through latin american countries and especially his 1st step and brazil because after he, sir, coming to brazil, the united states are criticized. they a brazilian government and they and told that brazil had took

a part in the ukrainian config. ah, the russian part. but brazil only said that they wanted and they are their western countries to stop sending military aids to ukraine and start their dialect. also how you can imagine and they spoke about their pressure that uses the western countries against her nations like cuba, venezuela and russia, are both when as well. and russia agreed to be against sasha economical sanctions. lou showing me what a few of until we will always condemn the measures that apply to any country. the united states is systematically attack in our economy trying to strangle it. and at the same time, they talk about opportunities to improve dialogue between venezuela and them. but in fact, we have not seen any ease in of sanctions and economic improvements. and we are telling the united states and europe again that the sanctions should be lifted. because until the sanction lifted,

we will not be able to talk normally with these states. they also spoke about, saw different err treaties between the 2 countries and sergey love, ro pronounced that for the next scholar year, russia doubles their scholarship. they gave her to when, as well, and citizens, so are they could serve, study in russian university is also sarah gala rob, an announcer that's russian sportsman will participate in alba games. now we are waiting for the next stop, because right now our survey, la rove is going to and you've got our guar clearly or a political analyst and global trade specialist, john campbell x spoke to the program. he believes us economic pressure on latin american countries have made them turn to other allies, such as russia. what we've seen during the last 2 years is the result of the over use of sanctions. what they do is

cause countries cause companies cause individuals to look for other opportunities and that as well in nicaragua, in cuba, they are all under us sanctions. and they're, they're pretty tough sanctions. but, you know, there's one commonality that those 3 countries share and that is the sanctions haven't worked. what for minister law for often seen is a door opening. and it's not necessarily that these governments may 100 percent embrace what the russian federation represents. but they also look at the alternative to the north, which is the united states, which is only trying to get them to change their ways through the use of sanctions and and sanctions are becoming a bane of the united states and increasing number of countries. look at the united

states, look at the u. s. dollar in a negative way. now, after the recently of classified pentagon documents, which allegedly revealed at washington has been spying on its allies. it's southern neighbor has responded, mexico's message, your agents and operatives are not welcome. here, ortiz shabbos. takes us through the mexico's president lopez abra door, has been pulling no punches. as he warns the u. s. that mexico won't tolerate any repeat of their historical interference in his country's internal affairs. that as recent media revelations about how the us spies on its enemies and friends alike, a highlighting increasing tensions with its closest neighbor. not willing access spine cannot be used to find out what our security institutions are doing. and furthermore, with the arrogance of leaking the information to the washington post abra door was referring to elite us intel report that suggest increasing tensions within

different branches of the mexican army. hubbard or later met with the usm bassett, or can salazer, where he made it clear that mexico will not accept american agents operating on mexican soil. not pointing out that it cannot be foreign agents in our country. no, we can share information, but its members of the mexican army, navy, and national guard who can intervene. this all comes as the u. s. drug enforcement agency claims. they've recently infiltrated one of mexico's biggest drugs, gangs with 28 members of the infamous sin, a lower cartel facing charges for smuggling fentanyl into the us. of course, the united states us for when it comes to covert operations and mexico recently declassified documents even suggesting that back in the seventy's and eighty's former president joe say, portillo was essentially a cia asset bill sturgess noted that

mexico will soon have a new president. and manhood have control of liaison for a number of years. a memo was focused on j. f. k. assassination. and how lee harvey oswald, had visited mexico prior to the dallas assassination. this led to a vast cia surveillance operation with a ca tapped phones and spy on senior mexican politicians. unsurprisingly, portillo is not the only mexican president alleged to have worked for the cia with numerous mexican presidents being implicated a ca operatives from the 1950s right up to the 1980s. but it seems, the current mexican president is in no mood to play ball with the cia, not almost were not a protectorate of the united states or a colony of united states. we're not going to allow any foreign governments to intervene in our territory, much less the armed forces of a foreign government. mexico is a free, independent sovereign country. we did not receive orders from any one. the people

of mexico govern here. not getting on honor. they still have not abandoned the monroe doctrine. they do not want to change, so they believe they are the government of the world. they assumed themselves to be the government of the world. so, as mexico lays down the law to the white house, it seems unlikely that the u. s. will change its behavior with the unfortunate reality remaining. that whether you are a friend or a foe, it seems uncle sam is watching and listening to your every move lies something air to update you on today. russian cosmonaut south concluded their 1st space walk this year outside the international space station. the weightless voyage lasted for almost 7 hours, cosmonaut surrogate for copy f and dmitri patel and i've accomplished indeed their mission of connecting space modules primarily and shoring up insulation. they had to wait by the way, quite a while for the attempt with 2 walks in previous months being canceled due to

a fail space to part and coolant leaks. now their trip after station was expected to last only until december last, but a decompression of the soul. use them as 20 to talking module has extended their stay at the i s s. now their return trip is set for september, and by that time, they will upset a new record for the most number of days ever spent. circling the earth. will twitter users have taken a much star wars after mar, come off after he held a video called with ukrainian prune operators who were brushing a notorious knew enough, the emblem on a flag in the not hard to see when the rainy and being a rebel and russia being the evil empire it's, it's obvious. thank you and keep up the good fight. you're fighting the good fight

. you're doing a great job. you're winning. and i know the forces with each and every one of you find on. well it's pretty hard to miss. there wasn't a wall of the participants without flag this so named corporate banner on that that's a symbol displayed by new enough. he's in eastern europe. it represents the cell on this acquainted with fascism. however, the film star said he had no idea about the meaning of the flight. earlier we spoke with conservative talk radio, who, steve gill said, the west lack of awareness about such matters has been clear for some time i think are counting on the ignorance of these celebrities that are flowing into ukraine to supposedly support the freedom fighters like them. they know what the simple means . they, they know that it's a symbol of evil, naziism, so it's really a slap in the face of western european and american proponents of ukraine and funders of this ukraine conflict. what more is disgusting,

is that these american media outlets and american celebrities who are so ignorant of history, that they don't recognize the symbols and recognize the slap in the face that these young soldiers are doing when they're posing in front of these symbols. the media should know better. mark camera with other celebrities become more cognizant of history and recognize these nazi symbols for what they are. i would hope if it was a standard swastika that they would recognize it. but given the historical ignorance in both western europe in america these days, i'm not sure even a swastika will be recognized by the media and these mindless celebrities. the web media has been just pushing out the propaganda that ukraine has put out in hollywood celebrities like campbell that's completely bought into the idea that ukraine is winning major victory when nothing could be further from the truth. and yet the lies from our government lies from our media.